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a year we expect to see it reach the one thousand mark. A great many students come here this year from other institutions of higher learning in Kansas and the neighboring states, recognizing the greater advantages offered in the way of equipment and instruction. The Extension Lectures have given many people of the state a direct acquaintance with the University. The graduates of Kansas University are its advertisement in every part of the state; they are appearing in business and professional life, in public office, in the legislature—two of them are on the Board of Regents; they control some of the leading newspapers of the State; sixty of them are principals and teachers in our High Schools. Outside the State in nearly all the great Universities of the East our alumni are winning honors for Kansas; some few are professors in other colleges; nearly every year finds one or two pursuing their studies in Europe. The scientific expeditions of the
University attract attention from all over the country; by their success our men are gaining for themselves and for the institution a national reputation. And of this we are most pleasantly reminded by the many congratulatory letters received by Chancellor Snow on the present occasion from the most prominent educators in all parts of the country.
THE NEW engineering building at the State University will be dedicated this week. Kansas University is the only institution in the west where electrical engineering, the greatest of all sciences, can be thoroughly studied.-Hutchinson News.
SUCH PARAGRAPHS as this appear in the News quite frequently since the change of proprietors. W. Y. Morgan,'85, is the new editor and we hope to see Reno County send a much larger representation to the University next year as a result of his work.
LITERARY.
The Evolution of Miss Smith, Freshman.
Miss Smith was very young. To be sure that is not a particularly distinguishing quality. Most of the men she knew were painfully young, although it was impossible to make them feel it; they were irrepressible, after the manner of very youthful fellows. They were, to tell the truth, college men, (which explains everything) and she was a college girl. By the way, it was the same college, for her father believed in co-education.
Miss Smith did not have the least idea that she was young, she thought seventeen quite an advanced age. She had been doing up her hair and wearing long dresses for almost a year now, and she had been going out in Smithville society fully that long. To be sure society in Smithville was rather primitive. She had felt this vaguely, always, but she was positively certain of it after she had entered college.
The annual visits of the Glee Club to her native town had partly prepared Miss Smith for the very "swell" society of the University. The year before she entered college, it had been her privilege to attend the reception which was always given the club, and which was by far, the most important social function of the season in Smithville. She had had a new gown for the occasion, and had been much impressed by a sense of her own importance until she met some of those much talked of college men, when she quite forgot herself in her awe of them.
From that time it was the dream of Miss Smith's life not only "to go off to school" but to that school in particular. She had the most extravagant ideas of University society. She was certain that it must be very "swagger" indeed. All the Glee Club boys wore dress-suits and parted their hair in the middle, and the